Dethrone the Mind
The essence of all Scriptures, in a nutshell, is this: You yourself are the fulfilment of any Scripture by doing absolutely nothing. You are the Highest. You cannot be achieved at all. You cannot be understood or perceived. Stay as the formless.
Drop everything and don't touch anything, any idea about yourself. Drop it and then drop the idea of dropping.
Okay, I'm not anything that I can perceive, but now what? There is always stuff to be noticed.
And there is always stuff to be ignored!
Mind operates on the notion that if you do this thing and then this other thing, then you're going to receive some reward. The mantra of the mind is: 'If... Then... Maybe...' It always pursues through promises, always later, always some conditions. It's the avoidance of the mind, never now, it's never fine as it is. Because these ideas of things to do, to improve, to fix, and so on, keep it alive and important. It is telling us: "Come on, man! You can't do without me! If you ever try, I warn you, your life will be a complete mess!"
That's why we say you have to dethrone your mind, not kill it. How could you? But it is presently your guru, you trust its voice, even though one minute it is saying: 'I love you,' the next 'I hate you...' How can you trust this mind?
Still somehow we seem to enjoy this game. We love the unpredictability and the friction. In a strange way we seem to even enjoy turmoil. Let's admit it.
More Text Dialogues
Start by holding on only to the sense of being or 'I am-self,' to the exclusion of other thoughts. Don't form any conclusion in mind. Stay as open, neutral non-objective awareness.
Dialogues on mooji.satsangs.net
There is a beautiful collection of dialogues on a Satsang friend's web site: mooji.satsangs.net. To see these transcripts, on the left-hand side of the page, click on Texts; new text will appear at the bottom of the menu listing "Texts from A to M" and "Texts from N to Z". Click on one to see more. When the "Mooji Satsang Transcriptions" page opens, you'll see a dropdown list at the top of the page with an index to all of the transcripts offered by this beautiful web site.
Attention and what the attention turns toward are both manifestations in the one consciousness. Therefore attention itself is a phenomenon. And you are aware of attention. So what is this that is behind everything, that knows even this?
Mooji expounds the true nature of the Self, pointing out the common pitfalls to clear and lasting recognition of the one truth we are. Here, he guides the seeker through and beyond the early hurdles of doubt, resistance, fear and confusion and into the irrefutable clarity of Being.
The firm realisation that there isn't a 'somebody' to gain enlightenment, and that there can never be an entity to gain any such state, is what amounts to enlightenment.
You are now free, but somehow your attention caresses 'other' and your facinations - your conceptual investments which spring from the belief 'I am the body' amounts to an eclipsing of your natural Self-awareness/beingness.
In the emptiness, what are you? What form do you wear in emptiness? Are you in it, or are you it?
A collection of Mooji's sayings selected and compiled by Noé.
A list of Sanskrit and Hindi words that are sometimes used in Satsang.
