SATSANG OF THE WEEK
Morning Spiritual Exercise ~ How to Live as Presence
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Moojibaba shares very simple and practical advice on how to begin the day grounded in presence.
“I am not saying these things for the mind to learn them but for the mind to dissolve in them. Stay with the presence, this is going to be the best ten minutes you are going to spend.”
Monte Sahaja, Portugal
19 October 2020
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This video is the ‘Satsang of the Week’ for 25 October 2020
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No one has ever succeeded in
conveying Truth through words alone,
for Truth is beyond words, learning,
imagination and language. It is unfathomable.
Words like God, consciousness, emptiness,
the Self, the great void, the Supreme Being
inspire and evoke a contemplation, and perhaps,
herein lies their real purpose and service,
but in truth there are no words for that which alone Is.
When and where words come to an end,
It, the What Is, does not begin.
It is there in the space between two thoughts,
but it is also there during the appearing of thoughts.
Contemplate this.
~ Mooji
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in a drop.”
~ Rumi
“You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while. Each person’s life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
“Outwardly, I am one apple among many. Inwardly, I am the tree.
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe. You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
The real YOU is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real, deep down YOU is the whole universe.
You are the universe experiencing itself.”
~ Alan Watts
“The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.
You have potential powers beyond your wildest dreams. Not only is the entire universe reflected in you, but also the power to control the universe is waiting to be used.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
“You are not alone as a person, you are alone as the entire universe.”
~ Mooji
“Suddenly I was thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom – from myself, from my problems. I saw that I am bigger than what I do, bigger than my body. I am everything and everyone. I am no longer a fragment of the universe. I am the universe.”
~ Jim Carrey
“Though the eye is small, the consciousness which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.”
~ Meher Baba
“When we look at the ocean, we see that each wave has a beginning and an end. A wave can be compared with other waves, and we can call it more or less beautiful, higher or lower, longer lasting or less long lasting. But if we look more deeply, we see that a wave is made of water. While living the life of a wave, the wave also lives the life of water. It would be sad if the wave did not know that it is water. It would think, ‘Some day I will have to die. This period of time is my life span, and when I arrive at the shore, I will return to nonbeing.’ These notions will cause the wave fear and anguish. In the world of the wave, the world of relative truth, the wave feels happy as she swells, and she feels sad as she falls. She may think ‘I am high!’ or ‘I am low!’ and develop superiority or inferiority complexes, but when the wave touches her true nature – which is water – all of her complexes will cease, and she will transcend birth and death.
Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“The whole universe is I-am. So whenever I say “I am choiceless, effortless, pure awareness, I am the Self”, always remember, I am not referring to Robert. I’m referring to I-am, which is pure consciousness. When I make that confession, it is all-pervading. It is omnipresence itself. Everyone of you is I-am. The whole universe is I-am.
How can you want anything when you are the whole universe?
All the answers are within you. Everything you’re looking for is within you, everything. Know who you are. You are the power. All the power of the universe is within you. All is well, exceedingly well. It has always been well, it will always be well.
I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. The reality in back of the universe is pure awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.”
~ Robert Adams
I want you to address my concerns
but you avoid them. Why? Are they
not spiritual enough?
“Since you are bold and persistent, I
shall be equally bold: Your questions
are not real. My answers are not real.
The world as you perceive it is not real.
War and peace, selfish and deluded
projections of aggressive-natured beings,
are equally unreal. Aspirations are unreal.
Solutions based in egoic identity are
unreal. Nature perceived as separate from
one’s self, unreal. I also, as an autonomous
entity, am unreal. You – equally unreal. Life
itself, as is fashioned inside the human
psyche is unreal. Death too, as is imagined
based upon the ill-conceived notion that we
are merely our bodies and personalities, is
unreal. All is illusion – unreal. The Self,
timeless and spaceless, immutable,
beyond all qualities, alone is real. You
must look within to find and confirm this
for yourself. Until and unless you do,
your comprehension of the world is
based on very shaky ground; a
ground of naive assumptions and
second-hand knowledge.”
I don’t know how I would feel grateful
when pain, physical or emotional,
is really throbbing?
“There is no need to force being grateful.
Due to a kind of conditioned reflex, the
blood flow rushes towards the centre of
activity like the flow of white corpuscles to
the site of physical injury. In this example,
the centre of activity is wherever the sense
of personal ‘I’ throbs, and the subsequent
attention given to it is like the blood flow.
You are not that, you are ‘aware’ of that. Just be clear about this, without panic. If you hold to the intuition, the sense ‘I am’, aNMnd do not allow this to connect with any other concept, if you just let the ‘I am’ incubate in itself, immediately joy and space prevail. Spontaneously, there is the silent and intuitive conviction that confirms, ‘I am timeless, unbound being.’ This is not a teaching, it is a powerful inner experience. Inexplicable. Something is seen, it is enough. You cannot prove it and you need not prove it. You don’t need to talk about it, not even to share it. Keep quiet.
So, you say, ‘I have suffered.’ I am not going to fight with you about it. But also there are people who experience a deep sense of gratitude or even joy behind their apparent suffering. I won’t call this suffering really, because there is no resistance here. They have understood and accepted that grace sometimes manifests as an intense inner burning that purges the being of conceptual and emotional toxins, and to that extent they remain in peace.
Pain and pleasure both belong
to the body, it is a package deal.
Once you take a body, you will
experience all the interrelated
opposites and contrasts of the
dance we call life. But this does not
mean you automatically suffer just
because the body is there. Identity
amplifies suffering. In impartial
and impersonal observation of
the body-mind functioning, pain is
perceived as a natural phenomenon.
Non-personal experiencing
is ‘itself’ freedom.
In the realm of sentient experience,
suffering is unavoidable. Where
there is strong psychological
and physical identity, there
is proportionate suffering – it
is the tax for having a body!
Mooji
Identification with this ‘I’ [with an identity] is the root of suffering. When you have a preference for a certain kind of experience, you suffer. When you have a preference for who you should learn from, you suffer. When you are constantly interpreting how things are or how they should be, what you deserve and what you do not deserve, you suffer. Wherever there is pride, attachment, judgement and desire, there is suffering. When we awaken from ignorance into our true nature, suffering is absent.
Mooji
Don’t belittle yourself nor raise yourself high. Don’t say who you are, for you don’t know even that. Just remain empty of identity and intention. Keep quiet. Let the Truth reveal who you are. ~ Mooji
Identification with this ‘I’ [with an identity]
is the root of suffering. When you have a
preference for a certain kind of experience,
you suffer. When you have a preference for
who you should learn from, you suffer.
When you are constantly interpreting how
things are or how they should be, what you
deserve and what you do not deserve, you
suffer. Wherever there is pride, attachment,
judgement and desire, there is suffering.
When we awaken from ignorance into
our true nature, suffering is absent.
