Mooji Audio Podcast

This talk begins with questions about transcending conditioning, balancing spirituality and worldly life, and working hard for 'things'. As Mooji addresses each of these questions, he reminds us that the human being is designed to fail in order to succeed; the inability to balance our lives can be a doorway into waking up from the shallowness of our own conditioning. What is important is to find out that which is not passing. The questioner's mind is then brought closer and closer to its Source with the question, 'Can the seer be seen'? This reminding does not create, invent, or try to make perfect what you are; it is only a dis-covering. "This is the beauty of Advaita guidance; it points you immediately beyond all the phenomena that appears in front of you, to show you that you cannot be any of that. This Advaita pointing is the essence of all religion. It's the direct path - it's the mirror path. How much practice do you need to look at your reflection in the mirror? So, I am going to call it the 'mirror path'. It's that direct. And sometimes, our minds don't like what is direct. It's much more in love with the journey than with the destination." Mooji encourages the questioner to allow whatever is burning to burn; stay as That which is not participating in the burning. What results is the absence of doubt, and laughter.

The cultural conditioning can be very limiting, almost a kind of prison. Mooji says, "Don't reject your culture, just go beyond it - You are earlier than that." Sometimes we are devoted to religions, beliefs and cultures which are suffocating for us; some pride is there and we won't let go of it. The Satsang is here to push us back to the place earlier than human identity. The One here has no race, culture or parents. This is the original place. Knowing this Truth makes it possible to move freely in the realm of diversity; the dream can go on, but we are experiencing it while being awake.

One of the questions that is being put to Mooji is: How do you perceive yourself while watching yourself on video or in photos? Mooji gives an explanation of his experience; he says, "I am there in this but I am also beyond it so I'm able to watch the movements taking place. Actually, I am not doing anything at all. This is my most truthful place." He also says that when we think we are talking about the material world we are almost always talking about the physical world coloured by our own imagination, feelings and fears. Our normal conditioned state of consciousness cannot comprehend the magicality of Truth; only when you are nothing, this wisdom which has no boundary can dance.

The roles in daily life are constantly changing depending on who we relate to, but something is here that is beyond any role or concept. There is an awareness which is not the body which is there always - like space. This world is a movie-making of the Absolute. It is a living movie played in 3-D, and all that can be experienced is on the screen of consciousness. The perceiver of this screen is also included in that play. "It's like God is growing and maturing inside God's own dreaming - dreaming within the perfection a dream of imperfection, and a kind of return to perfection - the dance for all sentient beings. What an amazing thing!"

In this talk Mooji shares his views about commitment in intimate relationships, faithfulness and love. Is it possible to keep your word? How can anyone make the promise, "I will love you forever"? At the most it can be a declaration of the love that you feel right now. Many people don't have the spiritual maturity to be in one relationship forever. There is not a set standard for how a relationship should be; some relationships have a very deep potency -- there is a depth of experience and a deep connection, but the time spent together (physically) is short. And what about faithfulness and vows made in front of God? Mooji says that nobody can disappoint God or make God angry. To be faithful is first of all to be faithful to your heart and to honour your own Self. A being that is not immersed in his own heart cannot really be relied upon. In fact, usually we are relying on others based upon our own projections of what we want from them. Better to let each other be free and have trust than to make to many promises to each other.

One man comes to Mooji with a strong determination to know the Truth. He has been experiencing a melting away of the ego, which is being replaced with a feeling of presence. But there are moments, he says, when he feels very uncomfortable when the mind brings up the 'person'. Mooji says to use the mind as way to strengthen the resolve to stay as the Self; it's actually a call for Self-focusing where you are again Self-reminding. Although it feels like it's running in your veins when the identity is present, that is also witnessed. Use that recognition to confirm that you are the awareness itself, so the energy drops back into the awareness and is not pushed out into person-hood. As soon as it's clear that 'I am watching this', the sense of personality will feel that it is also outside and is being watched. In that moment you see that you cannot possibly be anything that is perceivable. You have to transcend these energies - to conquer the potential to go into fragmentation by holding your attention, because you are the Master itself!

In this conversation, Mooji answers some uncommon questions, such as: 'Is there such a thing as a healthy ego? I know we are ultimately One, but in what way are we different - beyond the body? Does duality go beyond the physical world? Where do memories stay? Is there a memory of the Self? Do we have to go through Self-realization in every life?' Each of these queries is met and answered in depth, and in closing, Mooji reminds the questioner that all of this talk is just passing time - in a pure way. No concept is worth keeping. The highest joy of the liberated ones is to contemplate the Self. This knowledge is like 'Spiritual Nutella' - we enjoy spreading the Nutella of the Supreme; but the best knowledge is that which reflects the Self.

In this illuminating and multifaceted Satsang, Mooji covers many subjects prompted by questions from the listeners who are gathered around. Mooji begins by asking everyone, "What is boredom?" After some insightful responses to this question, Mooji then speaks about ‘unsuccessful inquiry’ versus ‘a place where the inquiry never fails’, the play of personality, confusion and helplessness as another opportunity of seeing from your true place, and the highest potential of words. One person reports that sometimes the inquiry is ‘cloudy’ and doesn’t seem to be successful; Mooji challenges her to look further into this: "If you think there is something to see, then immediately there comes a possibility that something can block your seeing. But if your seeing has to do with understanding who you are - which means that you don’t have to go outside of your skin to look at something - then what does cloudiness have to do with anything? Because you’re only looking for the seer, and the seer cannot be a product as a phenomenon to recognize; the one searching for the seer IS the seer. This is a fundamental insight!"

"What is the question, 'Who am I?' driving at? If this question cannot give me what I am, then what is the purpose of this question?" It's not a mantra or a mental method. The purpose of this question is to find out what arises as 'I'. Everyone assumes 'I' to be the person, and this is where the confusion begins. Being in Satsang can stir up dormant energies which often arise as resistance or fear. Mooji reminds us that anything can arise; but, what is important is to recognize that you are the witness of whatever arises. "You cannot just solve a problem personally, because the person itself is illusory. Don't focus so much on the person; instead, keep bringing the attention back into your impersonal consciousness and that itself takes care of all the rest spontaneously, automatically. This is the beauty of Self-recognition." Mooji encourages us to keep turning the mind towards inquiry; it is totally possible for everyone to recognize what they are, consciously.

Mooji conveys to those gathered around how the 'I am the body' idea - this ego 'skin' - thins away and eventually disappears, just by being in Satsang and by questioning this assumption. In response to this, one seeker asks, 'When is one ready for this death of the ego? Is it a process, a destiny? It's not really in my hands." This is one way of looking at it, if the emphasis is placed on a 'happening'. "You are already This, the 'happening' is the recognition that you are This," Mooji says. "And if you say, 'there is nothing I can do about it', who speaks these words? This is my living question!" The seeker, through his own looking, makes a wonderful discovery that it is actually his conditioning that is speaking this, and that that is definitely not who he is. Mooji then assists the seeker to confirm and reconfirm his true position as the witness - not as what is being witnessed. This discovery is followed by huge relief and a profound recognition of what he has always been - a space that is completely untouched.

Can the Absolute be seen phenomenally? In this Spontaneous Satsang, one seeker reports to Mooji that through the inquiry, he can see what he is not, but cannot see what he is. Mooji explains that realizing the Self is like a non-phenomenal recognition – recognizing something which is not a phenomenon. Asking the question, ‘Who Am I’ will not show you yourself; it is more like a door into your own Self.

This talk begins with Mooji reading a touching letter from one devotee - a plea to help facilitate a recognition that will end separation and suffering forever - a burning desire to come home completely. Mooji looks side-by-side with the devotee at some statements in the letter in order to clarify - to reveal what is true and discard what is false. The devotee expresses that he hates existing because it is synonymous with pain, and also that he does not feel home. Mooji asks him some penetrating questions like, “Is existence only synonymous with pain? Is there pain in the objects that you see, or is there pain in the perceiving of them?” And also, “Why would the Self say, 'Not home'? The Self itself is home. The Self cannot show you home because Self is home. Self is where the perceiving is coming from. It's the birth of the perceiving itself; it's arising out of the Self.” One-by-one, the apparent reality of his statements and the one who suffers them dissolves in the light of real looking. Mooji then asks the question, “Can the seer be seen?”, and the devotee comes to a full recognition of his true Self, and an understanding that he has never really suffered -- that he is eternally home.

In this illuminating talk between Mooji and two men from Kerala, the idea of needing to control the mind is exposed as only that – an idea. Furthermore, that idea will itself cause the trouble. The very attempt to control the mind excites the mind. Mooji asks, “Who is trying to control the mind? Is it the beingness itself, is it the mind, or is it some other thing? This should be very clear from the beginning.” Mooji explains that it is two aspects of the mind that are in conflict with each other. The mind has absolutely no independent existence apart from the Self. Without the Self, the witness of the mind, there is nothing called 'mind'. Only because the Self has moved its attention off its natural self-awareness, then this trouble is coming. Here, Mooji also speaks about the effectiveness of the inquiry when done with correct understanding, the 'idea' of needing to remember yourself, abiding in the Self, and spiritual practice. In this illuminating talk between Mooji and two men from Kerala, the idea of needing to control the mind is exposed as only that – an idea. Furthermore, that idea will itself cause the trouble. The very attempt to control the mind excites the mind. Mooji asks, “Who is trying to control the mind? Is it the beingness itself, is it the mind, or is it some other thing? This should be very clear from the beginning.” Mooji explains that it is two aspects of the mind that are in conflict with each other. The mind has absolutely no independent existence apart from the Self. Without the Self, the witness of the mind, there is nothing called 'mind'. Only because the Self has moved its attention off its natural self-awareness, then this trouble is coming. Here, Mooji also speaks about the effectiveness of the inquiry when done with correct understanding, the 'idea' of needing to remember yourself, abiding in the Self, and spiritual practice.

In this Satsang, Mooji throws everything away. Concern about the breath, yoga, scriptures, becoming free... everything is thrown out. Nothing is valid now, Mooji says. It is all past; it doesn't exist. Mooji takes out his sword and chops everything that is not true.

In this Satsang, Mooji throws everything away. Concern about the breath, yoga, scriptures, becoming free... everything is thrown out. Nothing is valid now, Mooji says. It is all past; it doesn't exist. Mooji takes out his sword and chops everything that is not true.