Mooji: Train the Mind to Merge in Heart Consciousness

Train the Mind to Merge in Heart Consciousness 31 December 2023 (with subtitles) [Mooji] I see a few [mimics yawns] [laughter] Namaste everyone and namaste to all who are joining us on the screen, very happy to see you. And today, we have been very quiet here in Monte Sahaja. For those who I can see on the screen, big welcome, big love to you all, and I'm happy that we can join together a little bit. We have a little time, maybe just under 20 minutes before midnight, for those who have a strong sense of the New Year, and old year, and so on. But for us here in Monte Sahaja, it's just an opportunity to come together to see the year out, so to speak, or to welcome the new one in. But more important, I feel it would be good to... During the break I had a little look and I felt I would like to read something from the Avadhuta Gita. So I saw one or two verses that I thought you might really enjoy. So I marked them, actually. Now, I don't know, if all those who are joining on the broadcast, if you have been really following our most recent guidance ... I am so happy that we have come to that level of sharing, where the pointings have become so direct and so accessible, so immediate in their effect, and the impact inside the heart. If you have, then I would feel very happy to read a few lines that may resonate, and should resonate with you. Now, in the Avadhuta Gita, I saw one, another one, I could pick a few verses. He says, 'There is no such thing as separation or union for me or for you. For there is no me, no you, and no manifold world. All is the Self and the One Self alone.' I know this will resonate with you. 'There is no such thing as union or separation.' Why not? Because many people will say, 'Yes, there is no separation, but what about union?' So why does the sage say, 'There is no such thing as separation or union'? Or even union. So he is saying, beyond separation and beyond union. Beyond separation and unity, is what? And I feel, those who have been following, and experiencing the outcome of the most recent guidance, such pointings should just flow in harmony with where you are. So, I felt good enough to share that. Then he says, 'There is no me, no you, no manifold world'. Is that too much too say? Meaning, we let go of all the phenomenal representations that come in the mind, not destroy, not destroy, but simply to be detached from them. Leave everything. Drop everything. And if you do it, even as I speak, because this is not a lecture! It's immediate, as we speak. If you drop all these things, what remains? There will remain That which cannot be dropped or picked up. This is not a psychological pointer. This is not some kind of koan. This is not some sort of intellectual conviction. It is directly relatable, like that, for you. Meaning you come to that emptiness, you discover that underlying emptiness in which everything that manifests through the mind and the senses is perceived; and it's seen that they are transient. They are appearances that come and go. I'm looking at the sangha, who is sitting here in the Mandir. [Mooji] Yes or no? [Sangha] Yes. [Mooji] Yes, yes, yes. Finally, this verse says, 'All is the Self and the One Self alone'. Can you relate to this? When we go upstairs into the mind and thought, and 'Yes', and identity, and so on, there comes the big flourishing of the multitudes of thoughts and contrasts and so on, which is fascinating for the earthly identity. But now you have been given, or shown, given the ability, release your ability to see that all these are phenomenal. And there should not be any argument about it, because you have come to that by grace, to see, 'Wait, yes, whatever appears inside the mind, it's only ... Nothing is permanent there.' Only that which is able to verify that nothing is permanent there, that is permanence! [Mooji] So, you're liking to hear that? [Sangha] Yes. [M.] Yes. I hope it's the same for you [indicates online]. Let me see if I can find something else. [silence] 'If God is all-pervading, immovable, whole, without any parts, then there can be no division in Him at all. How then could He be regarded as inside or outside, within or without?' I'm going to go again. 'If God is all-pervading.' The sage knows. He's not asking, 'If?' They will not say, 'If'. But because they speak to ... Sometimes the doubting mind says, and just to present, 'If God is all-pervading, immovable, whole, without any parts', meaning limitless, 'Then there can be no division in that God at all'. Here we can use the word God, or you can use 'Consciousness', --- being. If I say that, do you have to go to imagination? [Mooji points to sangha live on Zoom] Do you have to go to imagination? Imagination is of the mind! Again. 'It is not divided nor is it undivided. It experiences neither sorrow nor joy.' Although sorrow or joy can be perceived, through the realm of the mind and the body functioning, they are perceived. But it says here, 'It experiences neither sorrow nor joy'. Meaning that is not caught up in that. 'It is not the universe, nor is it not the universe.' Is that too complex? The only way you can grasp this is to be, yourself, the emptiness! 'Understand that the Self is Eternally One.' You can use 'Eternally One' or 'Timelessly One', it's the same. Eternally means unending time. Timeless means beyond time. And you who have been listening and following, and not just listening in the mind, but really verifying inside the heart-being, how can you comprehend this? You're not holding anything. When you look in a mirror, you're not trying to capture the mirror, the image; it reflects perfectly! 'Understand that the Self is Eternally One.' Only, when you are empty, and your mind is not called into action to comprehend what is being said, everything can flow unobstructed in the vastness of being. Because the beingness is not gaining anything nor losing anything. [Mooji] Is it true or not? [Voices in sangha] Yes. [M.] You know, what joy it is that these words can come off the page and can float inside your expanse. And you're not trying to enjoy. I feel like that, you're not even trying to understand. [Mooji] Am I over-rating you? Pardon? [Voices in sangha] No. [Mooji] OK, I'll put this away for now. Why can we speak like that? And the speaking like that is not... It is That! And it is beyond that. What kind of New Year sharing is this? On New Year's Eve, we're still in the eve, no? Oh! I'm misreading that clock. We have 56 [on the clock] [Shree aside] Four minutes. [Mooji] Four minutes. Are we going to make a conclusion about the universe in four minutes? We have plenty of time! [laughter] [Mooji] I'm looking at those of you who are joining on the screen. This is not some psychological trick, it's not a joke. What joy it is to be able to share in a way that is very relatable and I'm going to say 'experienceable', but it's not the correct word, 'graspable' maybe. And not grasping to hold. But ... [Mooji clicks his fingers] So like a mirror takes no time to reflect. This is the quality of heart consciousness. Before we were employing the mind and intellect to kind of grasp and to figure out something, and to get somewhere. But all of this, by grace, and through the exercise and the pointings, that heavy garment of mental structure has been lifted, by grace, off you. Maybe not everybody can say that. I say it on your behalf. Because it's very important in a real living sangha that it becomes proof. Not the proof to someone else, but proof within you. So, I'm very happy. What does it mean, we are one and a half minutes from New Year? It means nothing at all, actually. We have one and a half minutes to go of the old year. These are concepts of the mind. And yet, at the same time, we can enjoy the concept. We can enjoy, 'Happy New Year!' [mimics kissing] We can do it. [laughter] But we're not carried away, we're not crying tears, 'Oh, goodbye last year'. We're not doing any of this. Because you are beginning to experience in the limitless space of being, which we all are! It's not just the sangha that is. In the reality, there's no sangha! You see, I didn't plan to speak like this. But I'm talking and I'm looking on the screen to see, if there are people dropping off. [laughter] It is a great joy to be able to speak on these things, without struggle. Why? Because you have been persisting with the simple guidance, the exercise. The exercise cannot produce the Self. It only ... [Bell rings indicating the beginning of the new year] [laughter] [Mooji to online sangha] Can you hear the bell? We have a bell ringing here. Maybe they should be able to hear that. It's Happy New Year, we say like that. If I have something better than saying, 'Happy New Year', it is to say, blessing to all the beings. But the blessing will particularly reach those whose whose hearts and minds are exuding the urge for awakening to the Timeless. And these are not abstractions. They are not fantasies. They are not the most recent concepts. It is just pointing to the nakedness of the Truth, that actually, we don't have to 'become' the Truth. That's the common language in the world, and --- w Year is, can we sit for a few minutes together? Will you join us? Will you join us? Yes? [points to online viewers] Be free. You can join or not. Just to recap for those who perhaps are not familiar with what our most recent practice is, it's a simple, simple thing. In guidance it is very simple. You are aware of the mind and the senses and even the sense of being somebody. These are all created in the mind. So when I say, Leave all this for a moment ... All that we talk of, all that we can discuss, I invite, leave this aside for a moment. Learn to drop everything for a moment. Don't throw it away! I don't ask you to destroy. I don't ask you to judge. I say just leave it aside. We can all do that, leave that aside. And make a little more effort to leave everything aside. You will not lose anything of value. And in the emptiness that remains, we say, keep your being and your attention, even the natural sense of being, the sense that you exist, that 'I am'-ness feeling inside, you are aware of that, then just be conscious of that. And we do here in this simple exercise, we'll start with just five minutes, we'll do. And in this five minutes, just to warm up, you can say like that, just try and just hold, just be, just stay in the sense of being. And what we find is that, by asking that, we begin to find, sometimes the mind comes in again. And I say, don't fight. Just refuse to go with the mind-flow and just come back to stay empty. Each time it goes back, bring it back to the neutrality of being. This is a simple exercise we will do. But some will experience tremendous difficulty, because you come to realise that the mind has got a strong force. And when you choose to just be free of its influence and to stay only empty, you feel the power of the mind. And you see, 'Wow, so this is the influence that my mind is stronger than my will to not go with it'. In the beginning! But very quickly, this changes. This very day, what a beautiful way to, let's say, start the New Year, if you want to put it like that. We don't have to hold these sentiments here. It's just another opportunity to sit. And I will start with the bell. We'll make a sound with the little bell. Then we'll sit for five minutes. After that, we'll stop. And then we'll sit again. Each time you hear this sound, [Mooji clacks the sticks] it simply means, it's just another way of saying, drop it! Drop the shapes. Drop the thought. Stay empty. That's what the sticks mean. Thank you. Om. Five minutes. [Mooji rings the bell] [silence] Simply leave all concerns, all thoughts; have this intention. Leave them now. Drop them. If you do this, even with the intention, a space of emptiness naturally remains. Be conscious of this emptiness. Nothing more. Nothing to develop, or change, or become. Simply remain conscious, awake, empty. No need to ask your mind to co-operate. Discover what it is, simply to be. Not the act of being, not the verb of being, but the noun of being, the Is-ness of being. Thank you. [Mooji clacks the sticks] For some of you, if you feel, if your attempt is to stay empty, you may also experience some sensation like going into sleep; this you cut! Just remain conscious and empty. It doesn't matter if it feels difficult. Expect that, in the beginning. Don't take shape. [Mooji clacks the sticks] Om. [Mooji rings the bell] That was just to get settled. Relaxed. You can just shake out. [demonstrates shaking arms] No big deal. OK, we're going in now for ten minutes. For those who join [online], you're very welcome. Om [Mooji rings the bell] If you choose to remain empty, though in the beginning the mind will fight to get its way, know that it longs to be one with the being. So your resolve is to stay only in the emptiness. There's no failure. Failures don't count. It's OK. So each time we feel we are back in the mind-field, it's OK. No fight. Simply come back. This is the training. Come back to emptiness. Simple. Refuse everything the mind will offer you. Not now! [Mooji clacks the sticks] No identity. No plans. No creating. Pure being. [Mooji clacks the sticks] Be aware of the mind. But don't get involved. Stay as awareness, like unlimited space. Clean. Clear. Be that space. Timeless. Shapeless. Be only awareness. Without content. [Mooji clacks the sticks] No imagination. No self-portrait. Beingness has no habit. Clear. Stay empty. Feel the pull of the mind, but remain empty like vast space. Do not imagine space. Om. [Mooji rings the bell] Very good. Very good. [Mooji] Can you take 15 [minutes]? [Voices in the sangha] Yes. [Mooji l --- a book, you cannot learn to swim from the internet, you cannot discover and be your Self by just thinking about it. It's a simple exercise, bringing attention here and holding it. And you feel the pull. You could have just woken up after an eight hour sleep, but you sit and ... [mimics nodding off] What is this behaviour? Not true sleep! Then all kinds of thoughts , irritability and itchiness come, but I say, don't worry about those, be aware of them, but don't log into their energy. And you'll find, with practice, you're more able to stay out. Isn't it so? Then you can taste the fruit of your own being. And eventually, the mind also is very happy to be home. This is the home of the mind, it's in the beingness also. But left unchecked, he just roams about. [fast hand movements] And you pay the price of that. All addictions come from this. All delusion, all confusion, all sorrows, all frustrations, all fatigue, all hatred, restlessness envy all darkness comes from this: the mind-force unchecked. Now you're doing the most powerful thing! Then also ... I gave this prayer also. Sometimes we do the exercise, for a while it's so powerful, it's beautiful, you sit for half an hour and it's as though you're flowing for 3, 4, 5, or 6 hours of just grace. You say, 'Whoa!' Then, gradually, the mind comes. But the mind cannot disturb the real being. It comes and it brings up the person again. This will gradually go. So I added to it, this prayer, for those who can feel that, to the universal consciousness, God, you ask, 'Please, whatever message or the force of conditioning that is binding my soul or binding me and producing negative effects, unrecognised', you offer this prayer, 'Please delete! Dissolve, arrest this tendency.' This is prayer. Do you see? And you keep doing it. And the consciousness, universal consciousness, God consciousness will now start to reveal and show you where those patterns are happening. Then when you see them, consciously you offer them to the light. 'This, I offer this.' This is power! Because your connection with God is an interactive relationship. It's not that you post it. It's not a post-it. It's not, 'Oh, I put in my appeal and leave it'. Now, if you're serious, as you are about anything that you want, you will persist, you give it attention, no matter how much you seem to fail, you persist and you break through! And this same persistence is here. But unlike anything else, this is releasing you from time, from the prison of time and personhood. This is breaking the chain, this is breaking the ... It's taking you off the wheel of samsara, so that you live as being, and not as a person becoming the beingness. And you will experience that for yourself, you'll know instinctively, intuitively, that you're in the height of your own being! And more and more you do, like that. [Mooji] It's good? [Sangha] Yes. [Mooji] Could we have had a better start to the New Year? [Voices in sangha] No. [Mooji] Yes, very good. The best. Better than well wishes, gifts, money, party, drink, [mimics snorting]. [laughter] Better than any of these things, because all these things are food for the mind! You have done the best: to sit! And take the torment out of your mind so that you're not a prisoner of mind and habit. [Mooji] So, very good. Thank you! [Sangha] Thank you Guruji. [M.] Thank you all, friends, sangha, who chose to join us for today. I'm most delighted to have your presence together in this. This collective sitting is supporting each other in this. Very good. Thank you. OK. [M.] Very good. [Friend] We're so blessed to be with you Guruji. [Mooji] Ah, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Same, same. Same, same. This satang is in honour of our beloved Darshana and Ma Swaran, [Mooji] Yes? [Voices in sangha] Yes. [Mooji] Thank you. If you keep in the core of your being this intention, 'This life is for freedom' ... Not next week, 'I'll start next week', 'Next month'. [indicates now] Life, your life is here now. Always here now. Always here now. Nobody lives tomorrow. For tomorrow, next week, last week, yesterday. It's always in the now. Consciousness. Now. It's now. Now, not as a moment of time, but as the timeless awareness in that nowness. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. [Mooji] Thank you. [Voices in sangha] Thank you. Bless you. 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