Discover Your True Self 18 August 2019
(with subtitles) [Mooji] Check in a little bit inside, internally. If I say that you ...
Don't be a container, storing things. Don't be a room. Be like open terrain, open space. There is nothing to collect. The sky is not collecting clouds. Ocean is not collecting waves. Let them play. Let everything play. Who are you? This must be clear. That is the only thing
that needs to be really clear. Are you an object? Are you a thing? Are you a form? You are perceiving the senses, mind,
the play of intellect. All this is being perceived. But can the perceiver be perceived? These are not questions for your mind. Can that which is observing
the function of perception, can that be perceived? Is it an object? Where must you go for an answer to this? [silence] If you don't cling to any shape for a moment, what is your size? Don't take the shape of any concept at all. What astrological sign are you? What is your date of birth? What gender are you? [silence] And yet, not that these things
are any problem at all, but they are more superficial to something
that no one catches. Whatever is perceivable, you are already here. If you hold onto the form, then you will pick up
the limitations of that form, and this natural conviction,
this natural knowing, it will feel like some abstract knowledge. Why do I say, 'Don't cling to any form?' Does it hurt you? You do this now, like this. What is here? If everything was taken, if everything that you associate with yourself was removed for a moment,
even just for a few minutes, everything, anything you can think of, imagined from any zone of time
was wiped aside like this, can anyone remove the awareness? [silence] Can you be lost? Is there separation? From what and what? And is this merely a game of imagining? So like this I say, in order to come to the quintessence
of your own Being, thereafter, after this,
then you may invite the world back. You may invite the whole world back and see if it causes any trouble for you, because everything here are clouds passing. Even this body is a cloud passing. No, there is nothing wrong with clouds.
And enjoy. Some will pass very slowly, others fast, but the important thing is that all of them,
fast or slow, are recognised, or witness-able by you. Even our desires which are so ... We are often attached to some projection,
some desire, they are also clouds passing. Does it hurt to hear that? Unexpectedly, knowing this, one moves very beautifully in life. Unexpectedly, love is present, joy and peace, which are hidden
by the personal standpoint of personhood, because the person always wants something, always lacking something,
always needing something. And by the person being somehow
too deeply treasured, you miss your beauty. Peace is your beauty. Love is your beauty. It is your environment, your atmosphere,
your climate, your perfume and joy, a lightness, a spontaneity, openness, compassion, fun. This is your perfume, that is largely hidden by this limited obsession with personhood. What will you really lose, except trouble? So life gives you, God gives you ... Yes, you may do this slowly, so that you grow into trust and faith, and that your recognition is not forced upon you. Sometimes a little force is necessary, because sometimes we have a donkey ego, stubborn. So life has to kick you a little bit
and then, 'Ahh'. You go to pick up a stone
and immediately feel, 'Thank you, thank you'. You recognise that you have tasted, as you say, 'acid grace'. Because the ego wants freedom on its own terms and it never gets it. Check inside. [long silence] Are you empty or full? Or indescribable? [silence] There was never a time
when you, as pure awareness, were not, nor will there ever be. But the person keeps changing
even in one lifetime. You cannot keep your shape. [silence] In daily life we will encounter some things.
You must negotiate, must use your power of discernment,
of discrimination. All these things must be active in the dynamic expression of consciousness,
and that is fine. But it is the finest when you have come
to this place I am pointing and you can acknowledge, 'Did you create this vastness,
this timelessness?' It can only be discovered. It cannot be improved. All work to try and improve is to be done upon the person and the mind
and not upon awareness. Now, it is a lot to say. [long silence] If you are not holding on to any shape,
or any intention just now, or to any form, or any desire for now, just leaving them aside, not aggressively, so whatever you can perceive, or imagine,
don't pick it up. Whatever the mind is showing
on the screen of consciousness, don't log in. Simply you perceive. What is here? Does it have any form, or shape? [silence] Is it going somewhere? That which is, when you leave aside
all concepts for the moment, what remains? Did anybody put it there? Is it a journey? I know for some people, their mind is a tsunami. If you feel somehow,
you are experiencing that in your head it is just like a tsunami is going on,
it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. That also will pass
and it will be witnessed to pass, and if it is witness-able that it will pass, then it cannot be you. It is just looking for attention. The mind is just seeking attention. [silence] Make no effort now. What is here by itself? Does it even have a name? Is it an object of creation? Can it fade? Is it an experience? [silence] When you can confirm these things, you will not have to work for peace. You will not have to create
or do any exercise to find love or joy. Spontaneously it will come, spontaneously it will manifest. All that is beautiful and pure of consciousness
is already in you. But as long as we remain fascinated with the ego, identity and personhood, it will appear that these don't exist, and we are working for small wages. Now I don't want to say anything anymore. Let whatever you have heard
that resonates in your heart, marinate in that. Be grateful to the recognition
of your own silence, your own Self, not personally, not as a person. It is not a person. It is the Lord of the universe
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