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Mooji has a very lovely way of pointing you towards yourself, and 90% of my posts here are from his videos. I like his explanation of what awareness is, which is all you need to understand what you are, and then his advice; to Be, stay empty, stay with that which does not appear but in which everything appears.

"If you stay long enough and keep honoring this sense of existence, truth will reveal itself to you. But do not wait, do not expect, just stay with it, and don't link with any appearance. Stay empty. You're already THAT."

Be patient; you're already where you want to be, you just need to recognize it and stop overlooking it. Simple!

Only the appearances of it.

At the core, it's NOTHING. The same "NOTHINGNESS" being aware of effort (an appearance) or no effort (another appearance).

Absolute freedom.

[Mooji retranscription, condensed]

Some words are jumping out of your being, like "I'm unhappy" and you believe them. You identify with it, you oxygenate the thoughts. And then, you think you're living in this unhappiness. Such is the power of belief.

But you are not even that belief. You are aware of belief and disbelief. Have you come to this place of recognition, yet? Or have you mixed your being with the rest of the thoughts that passes?

Has anybody stopped and settled inside this introspection?

"Am I amongst the perceivable? Am I amongst the phenomena that come and go? Where is my true place? What is my true position?"

Most of us are speaking as the idea we have of who we are, not the truth. Find the truth. See. See!

You are believing in any passing mood and situation. They leave their business cards with you and you are so quick to call. But it's even not a question of believing and disbelieving, but of registering consciously, "Who am I?" "Where can I be? What is the truth here?"

Since the birth of this body, something has been saying "I" a millions of times, but when asked "What is this 'I'?" nobody knows. [Because it doesn't exist. It's a thought being watched over and over again.]

If it's truth you are seeking, I don't have many questions for you. Two or three are enough to finish it off. But if you want to use your mind, you'll study volumes of books, and consume too much information. It will not help you to recognise yourself.

There's something here that cannot be removed. Everything else can be removed, but not you, not This. Everything else can and will be swept away, but there is something that watches all of this being swept away.

No 'you' who seeks freedom, just the appearance of it.

[Q] My attention keeps going back to the belief that I am the person living this life.

[Mooji] It's okay. You're beyond that, you already know you aren't any of that, so don't keep acknowledging thoughts that say this is You. Let them appear and dissolve.

If you slow down, you notice that you can watch where this Attention is going, so you must understand from where are you watching this 'restless' Attention; it's where you already are.

The attention can go all over the place, but YOU don't. You always remain where you already are; here. Acknowledge that, rather than going with the thought "this is my attention."

Stay where you already are.

Because if you stay with yourSelf, the attention HAS to follow suit and come back to you. You know? Attention, just like thoughts/body/mind, can't live without you. They don't exist independently.

If you acknowledge your place, yourSELF, and rest in this understanding, all these energies (identity, body, thoughts, beliefs) will naturally come back to you and become quiet. Because, indeed, if you rest as awareness while the thoughts run about, the thoughts will dissolve. Of course, they aren't getting their energy to keep going for too long.

Just keep returning to this knowledge, keep remembering that you're already here, as unchanging awareness, and soon enough everything will clear itself out.

[Q] It's my impatience that makes me go back, too.

[Mooji] Again, this is a thought. You're only watching it. You, as you truly are, don't move, don't appear, don't react. You need to acknowledge this, if you want to transcend the mind.

But since the root of everything that appears is empty, you might not see the value or importance in this. Since your true place (yourSELF) is not an informational space and can't be 'seen', you think you need to keep looking to find it. You don't. You already are at the place you want to find. In fact, you can't be anywhere but here.

It's just the believer of the thought that can have a bad day.

But even the believer of that thought, along with "his bad day"... is also a thought.

'It is the mind that's complaining about the mind. A thought "being bothered" by another thought.

You say you want to find your true Self, but that in itself is also a thought that's being watched. An appearance that comes up, and another thought comes up and says "This is me! This is my situation right now!" But none of it is you. All of this is observable. Isn't it? Confirm this.

You can't create, find, or improve Self. You can only recognize it; because that's what you always are.

By continuously confirming your place as the one who observes the comings and goings of everything (thoughts, senses, but also subtle things like 'silence' or 'calm'), you'll be able to fully and naturally recognize yourself as this "nothingness" that's behind everything.

You'll see that everything arises from this nothingness, and is nothing but nothingness itself.

Pay attention to yourSELF.

Do not cling to any idea, any shape, however appealing they might be. Not even the thought "I am the Self", which is arising in the vast, untouched awareness that you are.

The more you give space and time to this simplicity of being, you come to recognize the naturalness of Being.

Sometimes the mind rises as Restlessness. Thoughts like "I can't be this, I can't seem to stay as This" but be steadfast, and see that this is all just movement in you.

Stay as you are.

With this perspective, you'll be able to 'see' much more clearly and without the big emotions and narratives that makes you believe 'you' are trapped.

You'll come to realize that there's 'something' that never comes and goes. It's the 'thing' that watches everything come and go. You can't pin it down, you can't find it, you can only be it.

You're awareness.

What does it mean?

If you believe you're a human with a life, let's try this: From when you were a kid up to now, what can you say about awareness? Did the awareness grow up? Did it get older? Did your "ability to be aware" change in any capacity? (Is it harder to be aware of your life/surroundings/etc than before?)

No. It's the same awareness.

When you go through grief, or intense emotions, what's happening to awareness/your ability to be aware? Is the awareness of "your" grief grieving? Or is it just...here?

It's just here. Grief is here because there's the awareness of it.

Good. Try it with anything, if you want. When you run, is the awareness running? When you're sick, is the awareness of that event sick, too? When you're scared, is the awareness scared? What does the awareness of all these events do?

Nothing. It's just here. It's always here, unchanging.

While everything moves, the awareness that you are doesn't move at all. It's here, always still, always unbothered and untouched.

It doesn't take years, months, or days to recognize this. It can happen now! Right now! It's a simple recognition. What seems to cloud this understanding is your strong belief in personhood to which you return, instead of the understanding that you're the awareness behind it all.