Before I Am, Second Edition by Mooji

Author:Mooji
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mooji, self-realisation, Spirituality, Awakening, Advaita, Self-Inquiry, Enlightenment
Publisher: Mooji Media
Published: 2013-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

The Only Thief in the Universe

Mooji, this search for my Self seems to be taking a long time. Sometimes it feels like I’m going crazy! There are still so many thoughts, all racing around in my head, sometimes I just can’t get behind them. Finding peace feels like a dream.

Do not be willing to touch anything that slows you down. Let everything go! Now! It is time. You have spent lots of energy, lots of attention, lots of power on things which are of little value. You have given a tremendous amount of energy to trivial things. Why don’t you give a little of your time to explore, ‘What am I without all these things?’

Here in satsang it feels fine, but out there in my daily life…

This is already a concept. It is not true. That which you are cannot go. It is your attention that goes elsewhere!

My challenge to everybody is this: Right here, right now, step out of this ‘here-now’—and tell me when you come to some edge where ‘here’ becomes ‘there’, and ‘now’ becomes ‘then’. Give your attention to this. In this inner space all manner of things may appear, but this one, the one who dwells here is untouched. Within this space-like emptiness, you observe life as a flow of sensations—momentary yet divine.

Allow yourself this freedom, allow an inner freedom, ‘My life can be totally chaotic!’ Do not touch the feeling that you have lost anything and you will experience a great freedom despite experiencing turbulence. ‘Turbulent’ is not even how you will speak of experience anymore. You will fire the inner journalist. Let everything happen as it does, and you will meet everything from this emptiness… then tell me what difficulty you have!

How do I fire this inner journalist?

First of all, don’t entertain this idea of ‘how to’ because it will bite you. How do you drop a hot potato? When you are curious, you learn, but when you are desperate, you discover!

You believe that the architect-mind has to decide everything. But there is a deeper mind, the cosmic-mind, doing everything perfectly. This thing of ‘how to’, and racing thoughts and feelings of guilt and regret will all leave. Tamasic energy is swallowed up by rajasic energy and raja is swallowed by sattva, and then sattva is transformed into total presence.

This search for complete understanding cannot be a part-time job but this does not mean that you have to give up your day job! Actually, you will find that everything that needs to be done happens more efficiently when the sense of ‘I’ as the doer of actions and the thinker of thoughts falls away and is replaced by simple being. Carry on with what you have to do, the activities of life are not in conflict with Truth. To stop being a chef and becoming a priest is not going to make you more yourself. For many, profound internal changes will get reflected in the outer expression, although discovering Truth does not require any external display.

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