#mooji pointers

'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.

[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.

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

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.

[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.

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.

[Q] I'm seeing glimpse of this awareness and my life is better as I rest as awareness. The more I do it, the better I feel.

[Mooji] Whether your life is going better or worse, that is still the mind, and not what we discuss here. Of course, once you come to know yourself, life will flow beautifully. That is bound to happen. But that's not what I'm interested in.

Rather, have you come to this deep recognition I keep pointing you towards? That's all I'm interested in.

Find that which is aware of all of this "improvement" and stay with it until you know, without a doubt, that you're not any of the phenoma that come and go.

Don't keep stopping because life is going better or worse. Stay with THAT which is aware of everything.

[Q.] I must not be fully there (as THAT/at zero) because for me, I have to dispel and let go.

[M.] That is a thought. And that thought came out of zero.

[Q.] Alright, so everytime you drop the thoughts, you're going back to zero?

[M.] No, you're always remaining in zero. You don't have to go back. If you come from zero and you go back to zero, it means zero. There's no movement in zero. Coming and going for zero means nothing at all. "Coming and going" is also a thought.

[Q.] So, when I'm able to really settle in to the zero where I'm already at…

[M.] That's also a thought. There's no settling in. You are already here. It's like space saying, 'The wind is blowing so strongly; only when it stops, then I can really be space.'

[Q.] OK. I'm boxed in, trying to un-box myself here.

[M.] You're boxed in as what? This also a thought. You're not boxed in by anything at all. These are just ideas. You're dreaming all this stuff because of habit.

[Q.] It's one hell of a habit.

[M.] Hell of a habit is about right. [laughter]

[Q.] So, I want to stay right here, right now.

[M.] You have no choice. You are always here, right here, right now. These (desires) are just thoughts.

[Q.] I guess I better be quiet.

[M.] Even this is a thought. [laughter] You don't have to even be quiet.

Whenever the mind speaks, everything is dirty. 'Now I guess I better just be quiet.' Even that it cannot do. Quiet is not something you do. Silence is your being. It's already like this. In this silence, even if you talk and scream, it still remains silence.

Realise this.