Your Heart is the Light of This World...

For thousands of years human beings have been meeting like this, under trees, in caves, on hills and valleys, to look into this subject. Many of them found what they came for but their bodies are no longer Here. You are Here. This is our time. This is our season. The edge of the human wave is Here. The future is an idea. The past is an idea. We are Here. Now, its our turn. What will You do with this question? This is the question of questions. Will you frame it and put it on the wall? Will you send it to your friends or will you eat it? I'll fight for You but You must fight for your Self. You must win your freedom back from this psychological mind. There are many wars around the world but all of them are fought because of ignorance of this. There's one real enemy and You must blow him out. The war is not about oil, its not about water or food. The war is ego. He's the enemy. He's the same guy showing up in every country. In every form he's showing up and we know him very well. His voice You must transcend. Each of us must transcend within ourself. Thats everyone's battle; to transcend the deceiving voice of the psychological mind. He's the only demon there is....... Your Heart is the Light of this world. Don't let your mind hide it forever. No-one came Here to remain Here-bound.

-Mooji-
Rishikesh,
27th February, 2016

How can you move Within?

"The Upanishads are trying to throw you to yourself. Forget the object of worship... just move within. And how can you move within? It is easy to forget the object of worship, but it is difficult to move within because there are objects still in the mind which go on clinging around you. Whenever you close your eyes, there is a world of imagination around you: dreams go on floating, images come up, thoughts move in a procession. Again you are in a world. The world of things is no more there, but the world of thoughts is there. Unless this world of thoughts also ceases, you cannot know the worshipper.
And how will it cease if you go on cooperating with it, go on creating it? You cannot destroy the world of things because you never created it. Remember, – you cannot destroy the world of things. How can you destroy the hills, the earth, the moon, the stars? You cannot destroy them because you never created them! But you can destroy the world of thoughts because you are the sole creator there. No one else has helped you. You alone have done the whole work.
Thoughts exist because you cooperate with them. Do not cooperate – this is the only technique. Be indifferent. Just look at them without loving them, without hating them, without condemning them, without appreciating them, without saying they are good, without saying they are bad. Do not say anything; do not take any attitude. Just be indifferent, an onlooker…"

~OSHO~
The Supreme Doctrine: Talks on the Kathopanishad

A Portrait of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, by Stephen Wolinsky

Stephen Wolinsky: I was given the book "I am That", in 1976. I went to see Nisargadatta Maharaj in 1977 in a very flippant way. I didn’t even see him;  I went midday and then left. I went back in 1978 and that’s when I really connected with him. The main teaching of Maharaj is that there are three basic principles of Yoga, no matter what Yoga.

You’re not the mind, you’re not the body and you’re not the doer.

For Maharaj, spirituality was defined by one thing and one thing only and that was the realization of who you are. It didn’t matter as far a path or technique. Either you know who you are, or you don’t know who you are and his entire focus was to get you to know who you are.

The approach that he used was very confrontational. “Whatever you think you are, you’re not. Whatever you think or believe yourself to be, you’re not.”

It doesn’t matter if I’m happy, sad, loving, kind or compassionate, if I’m a great yogi, if I believe the world is one substance. This has nothing to do with who you are. These are thoughts, ideas; these are pointers at best to point you in the direction to find out who you are. There is a famous Zen saying: “The finger that points at the moon is not the moon.”

For most people, the path becomes their religion. They’re more attached to how they’re doing it, then what they’re actually doing it to get. Because how you do it doesn’t matter, really. The only thing that matters is: Are you going to find out who you are or not?

Maharaj, said “Forget me, forget Maharaj, even forget the teachings, and just stay in the consciousness, and your own unique path, whatever that may be, will emerge for you.” That is significant because it levels everything. The right thing for me is going to be different from you and from somebody else. If they stay in the consciousness, everybody is going to have their own “unique camp” that will emerge for them. I think unfortunately in spirituality, everything is one size fits all. Everyone gets the same mantra, tantra, yantra, the same thing to do as if it is all right for everybody. I think a lot of the problems that people have or pain that they face is because they take on somebody else’s system and try to fit into it rather than stay in the consciousness of their own self and their own system and see what emerges.

"Offer Your Life and I'll Show You Life"

Offer Your Life and I Will Show You Life!

I don’t invest much into teaching. (Because) if I teach you have to learn and if you have to learn, you will interpret and if you interpret it will become personal. Therefore the emphasis is on direct experience and recognition. That you find the key to your existence - to the root of your existence and just be there. And the rest is your show, it is there, you can see, you can watch. You will find there are no arguments between the states. The waking state is not fighting the deep sleep state or the dream state saying need more time. Everything is cooperating nicely. Contradictions and conflicts come when the mind is alive and awake and has a sense of personhood in it. Because the person will always experience some conflict, something does not fit in, things don’t work. And it is not meant to work.

This is why I say the whole human thing, by itself, it doesn’t work. Until, somehow, it merges with the heart’s energy. When it comes to know the supreme being, then somehow it becomes humble enough to somehow to work with and merge with that harmony. Otherwise it is living in the state of disharmony and no one has been successful outside of surrendering and understanding in the heart of coming into a place of total clarity. Just by yourself trying to figure things out - no one has ever done it. Because it is a form of arrogance.

And you must also learn to discern becomes sometimes as a result of these type of contemplations you may feel an energy inside and you don’t understand it. It may feel what I may call a burning that your mind may interpret as a state of confusion. And even that that state that might be interpreted as confusion, another might find they are unable to think. Then the mind says you cannot thin, how are you going to manage and then that thought is purchased and believed. Then trouble will come. Because conditioning sometimes has registered that if I am not able to think - I lose my autonomy and I become vulnerable - then you buy that thought, then you believe it into existence and then it becomes your experience. But if you pay attention to your beingness - just pay attention only to the beingness - just be the beingness now - you will find that what every happens in life… if someone throws you an apple, you will not scream or let it hit your head - you will catch it, even without preparation, your reflexes will be working, when its time to brush your teeth you will do it, when its time to go for a walk you will do it. Everything will happen just naturally without you thinking well that is not important, the important thing has not happened yet. You just move in the moment, like everything else in nature is doing. Except human beings - they think too much.

Mooji - January 17, 2016 - Sahaja Express: Offer Your Life and I'll Show You Life

"Dive Deep Into Innocence"

"Dive Into Innocence"

Until you can reach inside and come from this innocence, this simplicity and this openness - you deny yourself. You see? It’s not that you have to imitate anyone but when your heart is free, your mind is free and you are so full of love. Then truth cannot hide from you and delusions cannot grow in such a stripped environment. Sometimes we are afraid to dive into ourselves - a little bit beneath the surface. But all magnificence awaits to be free from performing, from holding your life all the time, trying to guide your own path and so on. So in being in a place like this and being full of this yearning for freedom - it opens up so many spaces inside you yet unexplored. Don’t live in the narrow field of a person - where the infinite and Divine Self is not. Each one has their own way, their own temperament and expression and sometimes you do not know what your expression is. You only have to have this yearning in your heart - I want to be free - I HAVE to be free. And stop dividing yourself little bit here for your mind, a little bit here for your future, a little bit here for you past, a little bit here for God. Stop being little bits. Then you come into your wholeness.

Mooji

"The Peace that Passes all Understanding"

There are many accounts of people who experienced that emerging new dimension of consciousness as a result of tragic loss at some point in their lives. Some lost all of their possessions, others their children or spouse, their social position, reputation, or physical abilities. In some cases, through disaster or war, they lost all of these simultaneously and found themselves with “nothing.” We may call this a limit-situation. Whatever they had identified with, whatever gave them their sense of self, had been taken away.

Then suddenly and inexplicably, the anguish or intense fear they initially felt gave way to a sacred sense of Presence, a deep peace and serenity and complete freedom from fear.

This phenomenon must have been familiar to St. Paul, who used the expression “the peace of God which passeth all understanding.” It is indeed a peace that doesn’t seem to make sense, and the people who experienced it asked themselves: In the face of this, how can it be that I feel such peace?

The answer is simple, once you realize what the ego is and how it works. When forms that you had identified with, that gave you your sense of self, collapse or are taken  away, it can lead to a collapse of the ego, since ego is identification with form. When there is nothing to identify with anymore, who are you? When forms around you die or death approaches, your sense of Beingness, of I Am, is freed from its entanglement with form: Spirit is released from its imprisonment in matter.

You realize your essential identity as formless, as an all-pervasive Presence, of Being prior to all forms, all identifications. You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness had identified with.

That’s the peace of God.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Excerpted from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, pages 56-77.